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12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 7 – Walking With Jesus Playing Cards

On the 7th day of Christmas my webmaster dealt to me, a set sevens, with an ace-king kicker.

What better way to demonstrate grace than to take a bad beating on the river during a late night game of Texas hold ’em during a youth lock-in?

Sure, you’ll have to let the kiddies shave your head, but at least you didn’t lose it when you realized you were drawing dead after going all in because you came equipped with your deck of ‘Walking With Jesus’ Playing Cards.

And speaking of betting the house, it’s probably time I complain about all-Flash based web sites (again) – or that is a church and/or charity website whose webmaster wagered the entire user interface and/or navigation on a third-party plug-in technology.

Not that Adobe Flash isn’t popular, but it’s also not without it’s problems including:

search engine hostile

tends to break back button technology

comparatively expensive to maintain

more labor intensive from a smaller pool of human resources
(often having to steal from Peter to pay the addicted Paul)

relatively inflexible to change without a substantive investment in relational database interface

Perhaps the biggest problem I note with such sites is the trend for Flash-masters to continually “up the ante” with style over substance, in many cases because users quickly bore and/or ignore the gimmickry after the first or second use.